Warhol, Marilyn Diptych, 1962 Starts to use celebrities in his work to promote his celebrity images; he often takes photos of them and keeps them around in his studio; ‘The Factory’ became a hang out  In 1962, Monroe committed suicide; this work was started two weeks after her death. The image used in this was from 10 years previous; a publicity shot from her film Niagara, when she was at her prime  At the time of her death, she was ‘too old’ for Hollywood and directors began rejecting her role because of this; she was completely constructed and built by Hollywood, and then they reject her.   Exaggerates her color to exaggerate her artificiality  In the right panel, the ink in the screen is allowed to run out as the image goes down the line until she fades away

Warhol, Marilyn Diptych, 1962

  • Starts to use celebrities in his work to promote his celebrity images; he often takes photos of them and keeps them around in his studio; ‘The Factory’ became a hang out 
  • In 1962, Monroe committed suicide; this work was started two weeks after her death. The image used in this was from 10 years previous; a publicity shot from her film Niagara, when she was at her prime 
  • At the time of her death, she was ‘too old’ for Hollywood and directors began rejecting her role because of this; she was completely constructed and built by Hollywood, and then they reject her.  
  • Exaggerates her color to exaggerate her artificiality 
  • In the right panel, the ink in the screen is allowed to run out as the image goes down the line until she fades away
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during my first ever survey of western art class, my professor explained the difference between historians and art historians. historians, she said, were interested in old things. art historians, on the other hand, were interested in old things of quality. you don't hang garbage up on the walls of a museum; it has to be substantial and it has to mean something. so here you go; old things, made mostly by dudes long dead, of debatable degrees of quality but always with a constant level of importance. think of this as a deck of flash cards... sans the whole cards part.

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